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Chapter-12 Disaster Management: The New Challenge

BOOK TITLE: Comprehensive Community Health Nursing

Author
1. Correia Cecy
ISBN
9789350251621
DOI
10.5005/jp/books/11346_12
Edition
1/e
Publishing Year
2011
Pages
12
Author Affiliations
1. Cardinal Gracias Memorial Hospital, Sandor, Bangli, Vasai (W), Thane, Maharashtra, India, Uday General School of Nursing, Cardinal Gracias Memorial Hospital, Sandor, Bangli, Vasai (W), Thane, Maharashtra, India, Uday General School of Nursing Cardinal Gracias Memorial Hospital, Sandor, Bangli, Vasai (W), Thane, Maharashtra, India
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Abstract

The famines, droughts, floods, devastating earthquake; hurricanes, tornadoes, landslides, tidal waves, epidemics, etc. and many other natural calamities, that takes place on and off in different parts has called attention of the whole world. Nature is not entirely unkind if we live echo friendly life. Since the beginning of time, disasters have been a part of life. Disaster can violently disrupt our day today lives and change the history forever. There are also man made tragedies, which also cause the disaster that can be worse too. In any kind of disasters people lose everything that they had built up over the year. They know the future is bleak and they have to begin from scratch. Human-made disasters are on the rise in our country, which adds to the already-existing precarious. When the calamity sticks. What happens to the average community or family in a disaster area? Building the lives of the people is very important after effect of disaster and calamities. Slowly they will build lives and try to overcome the trauma and the loss. Build people. To give life to the people who have lost their life. Bringing self-confidence who has lost their self-confidence, bringing out the potentialities, that is in short giving dignity. Unless human being changes his or her behaviour, attitude, norms and values, the system cannot be changed. Let us all together join hands to reduce man made disasters and redeem the affected lot. What so ever you do to the least of my people you do unto God, that is to clothe naked, shelter the homeless, visit the afflicted, water for the thirsty and comfort the dying. Here you will see the face of God.

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